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Gateway Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2014): Willie O'Dea: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this motion, which we will be supporting. It mainly concerns the gateway scheme, which everyone knows is a very different scheme from the community employment scheme. While I am not trying to be partisan or unduly critical, I never thought I would see the day when a Government, one third of which is made up of Labour Party members and which...
Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013): Willie O'Dea: That is fine. I accept that. We are opposed to this section generally because the philosophy behind it seems to be that if one cuts young people's social welfare sufficiently, one will force them out to work and into training places, which are available in abundance for them. The problem is depicted as a lack of ambition among the young and not a lack of opportunity and that there are...
Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012): Willie O'Dea: I propose to share time with Deputy Barry Cowen if he appears in the Chamber. The central defence made by the Minister is that core social welfare rates will remain unchanged. Like many things, that is not completely true but it is partly true. I wish to draw the attention of the House to a phenomenon known as the poverty line. The poverty line is an internationally accepted standard....

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